Todd Dills

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strongIdeal mate/strongstrong/strong“I’ll admit it: I like a guy who drives a big ____.” — Cathy Day, a University of Pittsburgh assistant English professor, writing in her memoir, “Comeback Season: How I Learned to Play the Game of Love,” Free Press, 2008. If you guessed “tank,” you guessed wrong. Guys, reports suggest she’s still single.

strongRoad rage /strong“>My major problem with ______ is when they get too close up on you, and they jump in front of you without giving signals and they weave back and forth all the time.” –St. Louis resident Mark Charles, in a report via the city’s Fox affiliate. If you guessed “four-wheelers,” you guessed wrong. The report detailed Missouri’s plan to ban trucks from the left lane on most of its major highways, which went into effect today. Keep an eye out for enforcement, as the Fox reported noted, “>Troopers have already been enforcing similar ‘left lane laws’ that went into effect in January on stretches of Interstates 70 and 55 in St. Charles and Jefferson Counties for trucks weighing more than 12 tons. . . .”

Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name featured in Overdrive: The Voice of the American Trucker. Todd Dills (tdills@rrpub.com) is its author.

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Todd Dills

Todd Dills is Senior Editor of Overdrive magazine and writes from Nashville, Tenn. He frequently covers business, regulatory and lifestyle topics for the magazine and at OverdriveOnline.com. His work on the “CSA’s Data Trail” series in Overdrive about the federal CSA program was awarded the highest honor in trade journalism – the “Grand Neal” – by American Business Media at the 2014 Jesse H. Neal Awards. Dills’ Channel 19 blog covers a grab bag of on-highway hearsay, owner-operator news and driver views from the roadways the nation over. His work in trucking journalism builds on a background of news feature, fiction and other creative writing and editing. Find him here at the Channel 19 blog and via his Twitter feed, or send tips to tdills@randallreilly.com or via phone at 205-907-2481.